Cost of Climate Change Has Hidden Line-Items

While readers may have found our recent discussion of the cost of climate change to be interesting, I hope no one believes that humankind has its wits fully wrapped around this.  Here’s an article that points out a cost item I’ve never seen mentioned elsewhere: violence.

Of course, the author, Tim Radford, from the Climate News Network, is completely correct.  What else could possibly result from scarcer resources and a general diminution of comfort?  Radford uses historic data to make his point, but it seems fairly obvious.

Concepts like the one surfaced here should remind all of us of how little we know about the future, and how scary the prospect of the eco-collapse we’re so cavalierly engineering for ourselves actually is.